There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Happiness
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
